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@modulusshift

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Stupid thoughts and hopefully less stupid articles occasionally. Gaming and tech thoughts mostly, but I have a smattering of completely off-the-wall interests as well.

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hey! future me! I'm looking at you. You're gonna find some way to be nostalgic about literally anything I write here, aren't you? Knock it off and do something useful. thx bb

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lifning
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getting old as a left nerd

is having nostalgia for all sorts of 80s and 90s games, movies, shows, etc.

and seeing it manifest as brand worship at conventions, online discourse splitting hairs over details of the latest installment of a franchise, fans getting so excited to be drip-fed trivial fanservice with no heart of its own that it succeeds anyway

feeling the dissonance between some of your communities condemning Netflix's vocal pro-transphobia stance and others evidently willing to look past all that to promote their new scrimblo cartoon for them (unpaid)

and looking at how these are all 20+ year old properties
and just saying to yourself "...this should've been ours by now."
and cursing the name of Disney

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ChanceNCounter
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The way out of this mess is to let entities like Disney keep control of their shit indefinitely, as long as they’re using it as a trademark. The second they let the trademark lapse in any way, the outdated copyrights lapse as well.

It wouldn’t get us Mickey Mouse, but who needs Mickey Mouse really? What we need is for business interests to stop infecting culture in broad ways with narrow concerns. If Mickey is their brand, fine, I guess it makes sense that I don’t get to play with Mickey, but that shouldn’t mean a century of copyright protection for every bit of schlock put to print.

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